4 News: On the third floor is Raheem, a young man who fled war in Sudan to come to Israel.
4 News: Firm estimates are hard to come by but it’s thought there are 250,000 foreigners living in Israel. In addition to this, there are 135,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel. The majority of those live in Tel Aviv
The 1990s saw waves of immigration from the Philippines and Ethiopia: the former a traditional migration of people seeking better economic opportunities and work in the healthcare sector, the latter as part of a huge airlift operation to rescue Ethiopian Jews out of Addis Ababa during civil war.
Both groups have stayed in large numbers in Israel but have suffered problems. Ethiopian Jews suffer from widespread racism on a daily basis while Filipinos struggle to gain full citizenship rights from the Jewish state.
David Katz: how do we get a ger head count? can everyone just raise their hands, or how does this work? the curiosity killed the kat[z] it seems though so far so good. let's hope the new government here can somehow become openly pro-ger. i think, extracting shevatim yisra'el ~ emphasis on Greater Israeli tribal designation, respectively ~ should be a prerequisite for an official census, don't you, David? further, in lieu of the absence of proper korbanot, it appears an official census would only be necessary were Global Regional War on the horizon:
